About SCCS
We're the Swarthmore College Computer Society, or SCCS for short: a student-run group offering computing services, tools, toys, and information to the Swarthmore College community. Our goal is not to mirror ITS, but to complement and supplement widely available services by providing resources that would otherwise be out of the reach of individuals. For our part, SCCS staff learn extremely practical system administration and software development skills—the stuff you can't learn in a CS lecture.
Our Services
- The Cygnet: the Swarthmore College student directory
- The RSD: A daily email with news, events, jobs, and more
- Course Scheduler: Plan your schedule for next semester
- Mailing Lists: Distribute emails to clubs and student groups
- GPA Calculator: Quickly calculate your Swarthmore GPA
- SCCS Sites: Create sites with Wordpress
- Minecraft: The Swarthmore College Minecraft server
- Advanced: Some more goodies for the tech-savvy
Who We Are
The SCCS is run entirely by student volunteers. We're not affiliated with Swarthmore ITS nor the Computer Science department (although our staff are sometimes CS majors, for obvious reasons). We accept new members in the first few weeks of each semester.
Current Members
- Zachary Robinson '24 (President)
- Yael Borger '24 (Treasurer)
- Alyssa Zhang '24 (Program Manager)
- Alex Le '24 (Project Lead)
- Devina Kalwani '24 (Project Lead)
- George Fang '26 (Project Lead)
- Leo Douhovnikoff '25 (Project Lead)
- Sasha Casada '24 (Project Lead)
- Thomas Makin '25 (Project Lead)
- Yatin Lala '24 (Project Lead)
- Ere Oh '24 (Marketing Lead)
- Abhi Das '26
- Abraham Porschet '25
- Adi Chattopadhyay '27
- Adrian Duran Rey '27
- Ahmad Fayyaz '27
- Aidan Corpus '26
- Akiva Sherin '27
- Alex Skeldon '25
- Alina Vykliuk '26
- Allison Chong '26
- Andrew Moy '25
- Arfath Hossain '27
- Ark Lu '24
- Arman Hanifpour '27
- Arys Aikyn '27
- Bella Deanhardt '25
- Ben Gottlieb '26
- Carson Lin '27
- Damian Rene '27
- Eric Chen '26
- Felicia Yi '26
- Finn McKibbin '27
- Helen Yin '25
- Hojune Kim '25
- Isshin Yunoki '25
- Izzy Lopez-Kalapir '24
- Jamie Pickar '26
- Jasmine Fan '25
- Jhovani Gallardo Moreno '25
- Joey Alander '27
- Jonathon Cubus '26
- Katelynn Swaim '25
- Kenneth Barkdoll '24
- Keyla Peralta-Alberto '27
- Levin Ho '25
- Lily Davoren '25
- Lisa Messier '26
- Luis Park '25
- Michael Pham '25
- Neil Zhu '26
- Neve Yair '27
- Nick Fettig '26
- Nikoloz Khmaladze '25
- Owen Sears '25
- Paulina Trifonova '25
- Philip Dinh '26
- Summit Pradhan '25
- Theo Yochum '27
- Tina Chen '25
- Tony Cao '25
- Victor Sumano Arango '25
- Yana Outkin '26
- Yue Zhang '24
- Ziming Yuan '24
History
SCCS was founded in Fall 1991 by a group of Swarthmore students, who obtained an official charter from the Budget Committee for the Spring 1992 semester. We were founded, in part, to support the activities of students in Dana and Hallowell who had decided to create an Appletalk network by stringing phone cable between rooms. Approximately 32 Macintoshes on 4 floors (3 in Hallowell, 1 in Dana) were on the network, as was one heavy-duty laser printer—two years before the College network came into being. Gobs of time were spent diagnosing the many network outages that occurred on an almost-daily basis (usually due to cables being clamped by window frames). 30 years later, we're no longer stringing phone cable through dorms, but we're still having fun and providing useful facilities and services for our fellow students.
Footprints
McCabe, Floor 3